Ask the Professor #2039 Announcer: The University of Detroit Mercy presents another brand new episode of Ask The Professor! Today's program was recorded using zoom video conferencing technology. The University tower chimes ring in another session of Ask The Professor, the show in which you match wits with University of Detroit Mercy professors in an unrehearsed session of questions and answers. I'm your host Matt Mio, and let me introduce to you our panel today. To my left is Professor Mara Livezey! Mara: Hello, hello hello! Matt: Hello, hello, how are you doing Mara? Mara: Feeling good, it's nice and warm out. Little muggy but it's alright with me. Matt: We can see that the sun is streaming in just boldly behind you and it's wonderful. It's been great for the last two days. Mara: Absolutely. Matt: We're glad to have you here. Continuing around the Brady Bunching, it's Professor Stephen Manning on my screen. Steven: Hello, Matt. Matt: Do I see, it's actually difficult because I have poor eyesight. Is that a B or a D on your cap? Steven: It’s a B. Matt: Okay, so that's a Red Sox hat. Steven: Correct, yes. Matt: Okay. I think it's funny. Stephen you'll appreciate this, because my middle son's favorite player is JD Martinez. Bought him a JD Martinez Red Sox jersey a couple years ago. Now, every single time the Major League Baseball online store sends a promotional email, I get a Tigers version of it, and I get a Red Sox version. Once purchased! Just one thing! Jim: They know you well! Steven: Yeah I get tickets stuff for both the Tigers and the Red Sox. Matt: There you go. There you go. Beth: I got something from the Red Sox today. Red Sox mask. Matt: Oh, of course, you know, proclaim your sports affiliation through masks. Beth: And I'm happy about them. Matt: I hope I'm not overstepping here, Heather. My wife went on to, I might have even mentioned it the last time we were recording. She went to Etsy, and bought every member of the family a correctly sized mask, very very nicely, you know handmade, and most of them have some sort of fabric image on the front that has to do with that person. So my wife and I are talking about this and we got this letter from the Archbishop this week about starting to go back to mass at the end of the month. And I go, "Are we going to be able to send our eight year old with the like Incredible Hulk mask, like?" It's going that way, because I need a mask like everywhere I am to make sure I don't forget it. I'm already forgetting it left and right and having to come back home and... Beth: I still don't know how I feel about it. Are we using it as an opportunity for a fashion statement? I don't know. I mean I think it's fine for kids, you know to help them wear their masks but no... Dave: I'm absolutely guilty for being a fashion plate. I've got a My Little Pony and the Millennium Falcon one so I got choices. Steven: The DIA is also selling them. I was thinking of getting one with a picture of The Scream. Matt: That's right. Dan: Now that would be good. Heather: I think that's for a good cause. I mean, all proceeds go towards combating the virus. Steven: I figure it will keep people more than six feet away from me when they see me coming without that on the my face. Heather: Or the Red Sox's mask will do that too. Steven: Ohhhhhh, ouch! Beth: Matt you should keep your mask in your car or keep one in your car. Matt: You know, Beth that's it, that's my problem. I keep leaving it in that car and then getting in the other one, or we go on a family walk and, "Let's go out for ice cream!" okay, I guess I'm walking back home! You know it's just all the time to be wearing it or something, Dave: Matt if you need one, I've got relatives that are making them so. Matt: Well there you go. Dave: Let me know. Heather: Olivia can make them too. Matt: Okay Okay...Professor Jim Tubbs is here with us today. Jim: Yes, and I keep masks at home. I keep masks in the car, and when I go for a walk I fold one and put it in my pocket, in case I decide to go in anywhere. So, yes, I understand how hard it is to keep them at hand, when you need them. Matt: So, a little known fact about me, is that I'm just an eensy weensy bit obsessed with chapstick. I have chapstick stored like everywhere. My wife goes, "You need to put a mask wherever you have your chapstick and then you'd be all set," and I'm like well that's the plan now you know! Jim: If you live right in Arizona, you have to have chapstick every day. Beth: Every day, everywhere. Matt: Absolutely no better person to teach us about the American Southwest and chapstick then Professor Diane Manica. Diane: Well, hi there Matt! Good to be here with you! Matt: It's so good to see and hear you again. Diane: Thank you! And speaking of chapstick I have a little bag of brand new chapstick for anybody who visits, because most people don't think about it, and you really do need it I have em anywhere around here. Dan: Is that because you have no water in Arizona? Diane: Yeah, it's so dry. I mean, today is 17%. Dan: 17, wow. Diane: And that's high. Matt: Yeah. It reminds me, the only time - I've never actually been to Arizona, except for maybe the airport, Diane but - in my multiple trips for whatever reason to Utah, it's exactly the same. If you don't have chapstick, you're going to pay for it. Jim: I remember walking in some kind of variety store in Sedona, and ask the greeter, you know, where can I find chapstick, and they said, "Oh well you know you can go to the pharmacy department, or you can go to any one of the checkout counters because all of them have a big supply." Matt: Professor Dan Maggio is here with us today. Dan: I've learned a lot already, thank you. Glad I came. Hello everybody! Matt: Hopefully at least a few things you wanted to know. *laughter* Dan: Yes, I did. I wanted to know all that and more. So I'm looking forward to the rest of the show. Matt: Dan, I can't help but notice the flickering candle behind you. Dan: Yes, it is a real candle in front of R2D2. Matt: Very, very nice. Mara: It looks like it's burning R2D2 from below. Dan: I forgot that I had a candle lit in here so. Matt: Well there you go. Professor Heather Hill is here with us today. Heather: Hello. Matt: How are things? Heather: Good, I just thought of a ATP favorites. Matt: What's that? Heather: Favorite Flavor of chapstick. So you can save that for later. Matt: I guess we'll have to hold on to that one. Heather: It's nice to see the weather finally turning, even if it's raining. Good for the plants. Matt: Absolutely. Heather: And the flowers. Matt: Yep, and I've been thinking about you a lot lately because I pretty religiously, almost daily, I've been reading Farmers Almanac and they had already called for, from this point forward, a very wet spring. And from here to just about the middle of June, it looks like it's gonna rain quite a bit, at least once a week, which is good. Heather: Yeah, as long as we get some sun and it's warm. I'll take it. Matt: Now, if I was spying out of the corner of my eye correctly, I think Professor Chow has decided on an official Detroit Mercy professor’s mask? Is that what you were showing. Dave: Yeah, well I don't know if I want to necessarily show that to the President just yet, but it's, you know, you turn it around. You can also use it for Lions fans too so. Matt: I was just gonna say, having grown up in the 70s in the 80s, that is the that's the uniform for going to a Lion's game. Dave: Anyway, but pleasure to be here. As always. Matt: Excellent, excellent, excellent. And last but most certainly not least, Professor Beth Oljar is here with us today. Beth: Good to be here! Have you gone to a Lion's game with a bag over your head? Matt: Was gonna say that you could be there but you were embarrassed to have your face seen at the game. Beth: Ok. Got it. Matt: So people would come with them already sort of pre-cut and in their back pocket, just like Jim's pocket mask, and then if the game started turning south, you would put it on and be like, "I was here!" Funny stuff. Heather: But everybody wore chapstick.